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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts
10 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
SIR— Permit us, through the medium of your columns, to contradict the statement which appeared in last Thursday's issue of your paper, with respect to the Temperance Band having kindly volunteered their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A grand and successful concert, in which the chief and most attractive performers were gentlemen amateurs, Messrs. Ackland, Fairfax, and Sewell, nobly assisted hy Miss James,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many hundreds of ladies and gentlemen, resident in Sydney and its immediate neighbourhood, enjoyed, last night, the princely hospitalities of his Royal Highness the Duke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR— As some disappointment has arisen through the postponement of the Concert in aid of the Hanbury Church Building Fund, and as it appears to be the general opinion that the postponement is in consequence of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR— In Saturday's issue of your contemporary, "Artilleryman," whose letter has appeared, remarked that the letter signed by "Another Artilleryman," which was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—Allow me a short space to call attention proposition made a little while back to get up Saturday evening concerts in Newcastle, similar to those which take place in Sydney. I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The costumes, as a rule, were more suggestive of ease than, elegance scarlet shirts and buckskin ' pants' were in the ascendant. The boots, as a rule, were worn outside…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The above concert came off an Tuesday evening, as has been announced in your advertising columns, and by placards. It was to have taken place in the Public School, but behold the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most successful entertainments of this character that has over taken place in Newcastle, came off on Thursday night, off rather yesterday morning, at the City…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To those of our readers who have [?] the advantage of hearing, on former occasions, some of the performances of Mrs. Cordner, Miss Wiseman, Herr Schmitt, and Heir…
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